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Who We Are

Personal Safety Nets® serves a mission of social change. Its work is to help people prepare for life's changes and challenges by teaching them the benefits and know-how to build their own Personal Safety Nets®.

We have met this mission previously by offering programs and workshops which could be adjusted to fit you, your family, the community at large, work-place settings or educational institutions. We've now transitioned and offer this website, designed to aid you in defining your own process, or in engaging one of the individuals who have taken our training sessions. Our outreach to the community now includes our book/workbook/audio book, interactive presentations through trainers, e-newsletters, keynote addresses and more.

Personal Safety Nets® are the resources we weave together to create a more caring, connected, and community-minded circle for ourselves, our friends, family, and workplace.

You can see the latest information on Personal Safety Nets, as well as how the concept came to be, how it might work for you, and how to get started with building your own PSN - founders Dr. John W. Gibson and Judy Pigott spoke in April 2012 and we've got it all captured on this video.

Our core values are:

Effectiveness – doing anything well, and in time (Can always be enhanced by preparation and practice)

Learning – take in and understand new information (Happens throughout all of life and can be planned)

Community – a group of people with common interests(Essential to happiness and longevity and part of strength)

Kindness – being caring (“Do unto others as you would like done unto you”)

Disclaimer

As Personal Safety Nets (PSN) has been transitioning we've attempted to compile all we've learned onto this website, in a way that is useful to as many as possible. We're also attempting to address a concern that you, the reader or teacher, might think that what we are giving you as suggestions for your consideration are prescriptions or guarantees. No. That's not what we've meant to do.

PSN has been defined as value-based pragmatism. Though based on a set of values, we know that you will perhaps hold differing ones. It is yours that will guide your decisions. Recognizing that one size does not fit all, and that what will work for some will not work for all, PSN's purpose is to introduce you to ideas and processes, along with suggested actions. Only you can decide what is acceptable and workable at this time for you, your family and those you care for. We encourage you to seek professional help or guidance when in doubt, especially in regard to financial, legal or psychological issues. We wish you all the best in balancing individual responsibility with the security and power of collective action.